Past CSSME Seminars
The following seminars have been run by CSSME since October 2004.
Tuesday 09 October 2007
Val Brooks, Deputy Director, Stockton CLC
Supporting Primary-Secondary transition using innovative technology
Room: ECS 8.90
Time: 4.00 p.m. - 5.30 p.m.The advancement of the new technologies to allow schools to connect remotely gives many more opportunities for schools to address some of the issues surrounding transition at all stages. In my role of Deputy Director of Stockton CLC, I have managed several transition projects across the curriculum whereby secondary teachers have been able to teach remotely to the pupils of several feeder schools simultaneously, supported by the primary teachers, and the pupils have been able to access online resources 24/7 to reinforce the live lessons. The outcomes of these projects have been extremely positive and are now being followed as examples of good practice.
Further details of this seminar.
Thursday 14 June 2007
Geoff Wake, University of Manchester
Functional mathematics: what would an appropriate pedagogy look like?
Room: ECS 8.90
Time: 4.30 p.m. - 6.00 p.m.Abstract
Abstract: Functional mathematics: what would an appropriate pedagogy look like? (MS Word, 25K)
Paper
Paper: Functional mathematics: what would an appropriate pedagogy look like? (PDF File, 159K)
Monday 19 March 2007
Dr Mariam Haspekian (Didirem, Didactique des Mathématiques, Paris)
The integration of computer tools into mathematics teaching with special reference to the case of spreadsheets.
Room: ECS 10.72
Time: 4.30 p.m.
Wednesday 07 March 2007
Dr Ian Lawrence (University of Birmingham)
Using computer modelling tools as expressive media
Room: ECS 10.72
Time: 4.30pm
Dr Ian Lawrence will be reporting early results and implications of using computer modelling tools as expressive media, showing how children support their thinking in 11-14 science by building computer models to express their understanding of a situation.
Wednesday 13 December 2006
Per Morten Kind and Vanessa Kind, School of Education, Durham University
Creativity - a topic of interest for science educators?
Room: 10.72
Time: 4.30 p.m.- 6.00 p.m.The groundwork for this presentation is a review of research literature on creativity in science education, triggered by a curiosity for the minor role scientific creativity has played in discussions on how science education should meet demands for the future. This contrasts the emphasis on rational thinking and students’ ability to draw evidence-based conclusions. Based on the attention creativity has had elsewhere we may ask: will training students’ scientific creativity contribute to their being more able to handle the challenges and uncertainties of their future?
This question, of course, relates to wide-ranging discussion on the nature of creativity and the extend to which creativity skills may be taught and learned. Also at issue is the question of what really characterise creativity in science. The presentation, naturally, can not go into details on all these questions and issues, but offers, first, an overview of how science educators have approached the topic of creativity and, next, an attempt to identify perspectives that may be fruitful for further research.
Monday 20 November 2006
Maria Golding & Chris Kyriacou, School of Education, University of York
A systematic review on ICT and Algebra.
Room: TBA
Time: 4.30 p.m. - 6.00 p.m.
This TDA commissioned review focuses on the question: How have different ICTs contributed to the development of understanding of algebra for pupils up to the age of 16? The presentation will discuss interim findings and some methodological problems and opportunities involved in doing systematic reviews. We will look at how the papers from the initial screening have been categorised and how the initial question is refined in the process of the review. We will also use at least one selected paper as an example of the process of in-depth analysis, in order to look at key methodological issues involved in conducting and reporting mathematics education research.
Wednesday 08 November 2006
Jaume Ametller CSSME, School of Education, University of Leeds
The CPD dimension of our research projects (EPSE and Dialogic Teaching)
Room: 10.72
Time: 4.30 p.m. - 6.00 p.m.
Tuesday 14 March 2006
Ken Ruthven, University of Cambridge
CSSME Annual Seminar: Use of ICT in mathematics and science education
Room: University House
Time: 4.30 p.m. - 6.00 p.m.
Tuesday 21 February 2006
Lyn Dawes, University of Cambridge
Dialogic Teaching
Room: 10.72
Time: 4.30 p.m. - 6.00 p.m.
Tuesday 31 January 2006
John Monaghan, CSSME, School of Education, University of Leeds
Linking School Mathematics to Out-of-School Mathematical Activities
Room: ECS 10.72
Time: 4.30pm
I report on my (with Louise Sheryn and a number of teacher-researchers) current ESRC project which investigates ways that secondary school mathematics can be linked to out-of-school activities. I will give an overview of the project and raise a number of practical and research matters.
Tuesday 06 December 2005
Prof Edgar Jenkins University of Leeds
The student voice in science education: irrelevant or critical?
Room: ECS 10.72
Time: 4.30pm
Tea and biscuits will be available from 4pm in the CSSME foyer.
Further details of this seminar.
Wednesday 02 November 2005
Dr Jeffrey Goodwin, Edexcel
Extending the Curriculum Project
Room: ECS 10.72
Time: 1.00pm
Note that this seminar is not at the usual time
Further details of this seminar.
Tuesday 11 October 2005
Dr. Sibel Erduran University of Bristol
Argumentation in science teacher education: establishing teaching expertise using case studies of pre-service and in-service teachers
Room: ECS 10.72
Time: 4:30 p.m.
Tea and biscuits will be available from 4.00p.m. in the Centre Foyer, Room 10.71 (off Red Route).
Thursday 23 June 2005
Prof Rosamund Sutherland, University of Bristol
Integrating ICT into subject cultures: A framework for teaching and learning
Room: ECS 10.72
Thursday 19 May 2005
John Monaghan, Tom Roper and John Threlfall University of Leeds
Developing 14-19 Curriculum Pathways in Mathematics
Room: ECS 10.72
A team from the School of Education is developing, for QCA, a curriculum and assessment model for 'pathways' for 14-19 mathematics that will 'fit' with recommendation from the Smith Report and the Tomlinson Report. Three members of the team will present an overview of the project and on problematics aspects of the work. NB This seminar is likely to interest school teachers as well as research staff
Thursday 17 March 2005
Prof. John Holman, Director of the National Centre for Science Learning
CSSME Annual Lecture. The National Science Learning Centre: from vision to reality
Room: SCR
Is teachers' professional development the key to the transformation of science education? I will set out the vision of the National Science Learning Centre which opens in autumn 2005 in the light of the early experiences of the regional Centres which started to open late last year.
Thursday 24 February 2005
Anne Watson, University of Oxford and John Mason, Open University
The exercise as mathematical object: dimensions of possible variation in practice
Room: ECS 10.70
Thursday 03 February 2005
Dr Keith Taber, Cambridge University
Conceptual integration & science learners – do we expect too much?
Room: ECS 10.72
Thursday 16 December 2004
Prof Mary Ratcliffe, University of Southampton
The impact of research on practice: science education practitioners' views
Room: ECS 10.72
Thursday 11 November 2004
Maria Goulding and Chris Kyriacou, University of York
Have daily mathematics lessons enhanced pupil confidence and competence: a systematic review
Room: ECS 8.90
Monday 25 October 2004
Prof. Andrew Pollard, Cambridge University will lead a discussion on
Taking stock of the role of subject knowledge in learning in sequential educational sectors
Room: TBA
ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION.
This is not a full seminar, and places are limited. They will be allocated on a first come-first served basis. If you wish to attend please contact Jim Donnelly as soon as possible.
Wednesday 06 October 2004
Jacqueline Bell and Jim Donnelly, University of Leeds
Recreating science education through vocationalism?
Room: ECS 10.72